I found the claim that "you can't get rich in Sweden" quite interesting, so I looked up some data. Here's my calculation:

    Rank 	Nation 	Number of billionaires 	Population  People/Billionaire (rounded)

    1 	 Germany 	54 		 82,210,000	1,522,407

    2 	 Russia 	32 		141,950,000	4,404,687

    3 	 UK	 	27 		 60,587,300	2,243,974

    4 	 Turkey 	13 		 71,517,100	5,501,315

    5 	 Italy	 	12 		 59,337,888	4,944,824

    6 	 Spain 		12 		 46,157,822	3,846,485

    7 	 France 	10 		 64,473,140	6,447,314

    8 	 Sweden 	 9		  9,234,209	1,026,015

According to this, about one in a million Swedes is a billionaire, a ratio better than anywhere else in Europe.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_p...

Edit: For comparison, I calculated the ratio for the USA (population 306,798,000, billionaires 859, according to the Wikipedia), and found that about one in 357,147 US citizens is a billionaire. So while it's appearantly relatively easy to become a billionaire in Sweden compared to the other European countries, it seems to be even easier in the US. I guess that means you're about half right...